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A commenter points us once again to Buchanan Ingersoll litigator Stuart Slotnick.

You may recall Stuart planned to make Woody's relationship with Soon-Yi the focus of his client American Apparel's defense of Woody's $10 million privacy infringement claim.

When the judge properly excluded that proposed testimony, Stuart suddenly wrapped his client around the First Amendment, which actually would have been an interesting issue to see litigated.

(I don't see the satiric element myself, but it still is a more credible defense than threatening to drag Woody's name through the mud).

But alas, Stuart's client gave up and settled for $5 million:

Standing with his lawyers outside a Manhattan federal court on Monday, Mr. Allen said, “I am told the settlement of five million dollars I am being paid is the largest reported amount ever paid under the New York right to privacy law,” according to Reuters.

Always good to be involved in a record-breaking case, I always say.